This question—posed by Alfred Corn
on the Poetics List—a part of the
Electronic Poetry Center—epc.buffalo.edu
founded and directed—by Loss Glazier
can be posed—as a possible question
for both language—and cleave poetry.

“Lisa Jarnot’s work is often defined as later generation language poetry, yet she in socially probably more within the East Coast Beat or New York schools. Can possible reading of her book Sea Lyrics is as a bridging of this split between the aesthetic and the social. The book is a single poem composed of composed of long sentences tenth an concerned with liminal states of being and present a narrational “I” whose identification wanders. Sea Lyrics is filled with bridges. Literally, there is a bridge on the cover.” —Juliana Spahr, “spiderwasp or literary criticism,” Telling It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetic of the 1990s, ed. Mark Wallace & Steven Marks, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 2002, 404-428

10. “Sea Lyrics is filled with bridges. Literally, there is a bridge on the cover.”—Juliana Spahr, “spiderwasp or literary criticism,” Telling It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetic of the 1990s, ed. Mark Wallace & Steven Marks, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 2002, 411